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CVE-2017-2615

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-2615 describes an out-of-bounds access vulnerability in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator, affecting products like Citrix, Debian, QEMU, Red Hat, and Xen. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process, leading to a Denial of Service, or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with QEMU's privileges. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.2.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0365 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 464 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.7 Bluesky, 0.4 Mastodon, and 1.7 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm-0:83-277.el5_11
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7_3.5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-28.el7_3.6
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-2615Important

Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode

Jan 24, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0309.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0328.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0329.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0330.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0331.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0332.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0333.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0334.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0344.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0350.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0396.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0454.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg00015.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201702-27
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201702-28
Third Party Advisory
support.citrix.com / article/CTX220771
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/6
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95990
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037804
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry